VA registered agent
Virginia. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Virginia code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Virginia does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... agent in this Commonwealth, or whenever its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, then the clerk of the Commission shall be an agent of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-637(B); parallel provisions at § 13.1-1018(B) (LLC) and § 13.1-766(B) (foreign corp)
The Virginia annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Virginia wants a form and a fee to keep your company on the list. The fee is below. Not paying it is in keeping with the rest of this page, or whatever.
Yearly report, LLC
$50 a year, give or take nothing.
an annual registration fee of $50
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1062/
Yearly report, corporation
$100 a year, give or take nothing.
... FEE SCHEDULE ... STOCK CORPORATION: Authorized shares Fee 1 - 5,000 $ 100 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SCC 'Annual Corporation Requirements' / Annual Registration Fee Schedule (rev. 02/26), citing Va. Code 13.1-775.1
What Virginia had in mind
What is required
The Virginia code, more or less word for word:
... A domestic or foreign stock or nonstock corporation, limited liability company, or registered limited liability partnership authorized to transact business in the Commonwealth, the business office of which is identical with the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-634(A)(2) (corporations); § 13.1-1015(A)(2) (LLCs); § 13.1-763 (foreign corporations)
What Virginia does next
The state keeps a list of things it does to a company whose agent is not really there. Here is the list, pasted, unedited, because editing it would be effort.
Dissolved, administratively
If any domestic corporation whose registered agent has filed with the Commission a statement of resignation pursuant to § 13.1-636 fails to file a statement of change pursuant to § 13.1-635 within 31 days ... the Commission shall mail notice to the corporation of the impending termination of its corporate existence. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-752(B); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.2(B)
Dissolved, administratively
... when it finds that the corporation ... (ii) has failed to maintain a registered office or a registered agent in this Commonwealth as required by law ... Upon termination, the properties and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-753(A)(ii); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.3(A)(2)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
If any foreign corporation whose registered agent has filed with the Commission a statement of resignation pursuant to § 13.1-765 fails to file a statement of change pursuant to § 13.1-764 within 31 days ... the Commission shall mail notice to the foreign corporation of the impending revocation of its certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-768(C); § 13.1-769(A)(2)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in the Commonwealth without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in the Commonwealth until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(A)
A penalty, in dollars
... without a certificate of authority, each officer, director, and employee who does any of such business in the Commonwealth knowing that a certificate of authority is required shall be liable ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(D)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
What coming back costs
To have its corporate existence reinstated, the corporation shall provide the Commission with the following: ... 2. A reinstatement fee of $100; 3. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-754(B)(2)-(3); § 13.1-769.1(B)(2); § 13.1-1050.4(B)(2)
The quoted passages were captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and compared to the live code on 2026-08-10. Laws get amended. This page mostly does not.